From: Christian Brauner Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:02:17 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Merge patch series "ovl: allow O_PATH file descriptor when specifying layers" X-Git-Tag: v6.15-rc1~252^2~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=29349a3d6da3be3210a2d0be3a17433dd10f9a40;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git Merge patch series "ovl: allow O_PATH file descriptor when specifying layers" Christian Brauner says: Allow overlayfs to use O_PATH file descriptors when specifying layers. Userspace must currently use non-O_PATH file desriptors which is often pointless especially if the file descriptors have been created via open_tree(OPEN_TREE_CLONE). This has been a frequent request and came up again in [1]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fd8f6574-f737-4743-b220-79c815ee1554@mbaynton.com [1] * patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250210-work-overlayfs-v2-0-ed2a949b674b@kernel.org: selftests/overlayfs: test specifying layers as O_PATH file descriptors fs: support O_PATH fds with FSCONFIG_SET_FD Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250210-work-overlayfs-v2-0-ed2a949b674b@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- 29349a3d6da3be3210a2d0be3a17433dd10f9a40